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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!okjunc.junction.net!michael From: michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Date: 23 Jul 1995 06:59:46 GMT Organization: Okanagan Internet Junction, Vernon B.C., Canada Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3uss12$9ve@felix.junction.net> References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3unlc6$2cf@felix.junction.net> <3urdet$hd4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: okjunc.junction.net In article <3urdet$hd4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, Michael Hoess <hoessml@track.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: >>Perhaps it is time to start integrating >>tools like TCL/Tk and expect and PERL into the system in the same way >>that X and USENET and vi have been added. >And on the other side I think such stone-age tools like vi should be kicked out >(since they make people who worked with comforable DOS-Editors run away) and >replace them with other editors like JOE. Doesn't that one use Wordstar like commands? I love vi ever since 1987 when I started using it instead of ed but I have to say I agree with this comment. The standard CUA style interface with a dash of MacOS thrown in is far easier for novices to learn. Is it all that hard to clone the DOS EDIT command's interface? Of course, nobody bothers because we already have our favourite editors... -- Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com